Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 2.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 9.49% or 0.950 points to trade at 10.960 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) added 6.08% or 8.44 points to end at 147.30 and Surgut (MCX:SNGS) was up 4.31% or 1.195 points to 28.895 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NMTP (MCX:NMTP), which lost 1.03% or 0.0800 points to trade at 7.7200 in late trade. Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL) declined 0.68% or 32.0 points to end at 4682.0 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) shed 0.59% or 0.47 points to 79.03.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 137 to 85 and 15 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.29% to 18.310.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.01% or 0.10 to $1248.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.01% or 0.58 to hit $57.94 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 2.00% or 1.27 to trade at $64.67 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.38% to 58.9368, while EUR/RUB fell 0.13% to 69.5474.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 93.76.